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Andrew Sentance, a former Bank of England official and now senior economic adviser at PricewaterhouseCoopers, said the pound is gaining strength as currencies adjust to European quantitative easing as well as 'poorly performing euro economies and ...

These expectations have risen steadily from a record low 5.7 percent hit last July, but remain below highs of 70.7 percent seen at the height of the euro zone debt crisis in July 2012. A Reuters poll of economists in mid-February gave a one-in-four ...

On Tuesday we note gains made at the start of the week are being held. For reference, the euro to pound sterling exchange rate (EURGBP) is at 0.7284 - largely unchanged on the previous day's closing level.

LONDON, March 3 (Reuters) - Most euro zone bond yields held near record lows on Tuesday as investors waited for the European Central Bank to provide more details of its trillion euro quantitative easing (QE) programme later this week. While a rally in ...

If Euro-Greek negotiations fail, the ECB will face such a fork in the road. The ECB will have to decide in an instant whether to extend its �65bn Emergency Liquidity Assistance (ELA) to Greek banks or not.

The dollar rose to 11-year high against a basket of major currencies on Tuesday, with the U.S. currency hitting a six-week high against the euro as interest rate differentials moved in favour of U.S. Treasuries. The yield gap between two-year U.S ...

That's understandable, but it shouldn't be allowed to distort the debate and allow Europe to dodge the much-needed thorough assessment of the entire euro project: Does it still make sense, given its constraints and limits? What should be the way forward?

LONDON, March 3 (Reuters) - The dollar rose to 11-year high against a basket of major currencies on Tuesday, with the U.S. currency hitting a six-week high against the euro as interest rate differentials moved in favour of U.S. Treasuries. The yield ...

The data come as the ECB prepares to launch a 1 trillion euro ($1.1 trillion) quantitative easing program in an effort to boost the euro zone economy. An ECB spokesman told CNBC Monday that there was no formal start date, but the program was expected ...